When Marlo Thomas was honored by the Comedy Hall of Fame at the Museum of the Moving Image, she recalled how she met Gloria Steinem years ago.

Thomas said she and Steinem hatched an idea for a TV movie based on Steinem’s 1963 exposé, “A Bunny’s Tale,” in which Steinem went undercover as a Playboy Bunny.

But when they pitched the project, a male Hollywood producer didn’t quite get the feminist angle.

“We go into this guy’s office, in our glorious 20s,” Thomas recalled. “And we’re sitting opposite the desk . . . and he looks at us and says, ‘Oh my God, I don’t know which one of you I want to (bleep) first!’ ”

She added, “We were just flabbergasted. Where do you go from there? It ruined everything.”